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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

August 2022
Alana K Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe, Daniel H Cusworth, Eric A Kort, Alan Gorchov Negron, Joseph Heckler, Gregory Asner, and Riley M Duren
Environmental Research Letters
This study shows how remote sensing with imaging spectrometers and glint targeting can be used to efficiently observe offshore infrastructure, quantify methane emissions, and attribute those emissions to specific infrastructure types.Read More →

National attribution of historical climate damages

July 2022
Christopher W. Callahan & Justin S. Mankin
Climatic Change
This study combines historical data with climate models in an integrated framework to quantify each nation’s culpability for historical temperature-driven income changes in every other country.Read More →

Legal Resource – Expert Report of Richard Heede – Asmania et al. v. Holcim

July 2022
Richard Heede
Legal Document - Asmania et al. v. Holcim
In this report, filed in support of plaintiffs' claims, the author quantifies the CO2 emissions of Swiss company Holcim from 1950 to 2021 and the company's contributions to climate change.Read More →

U.S. Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuels at Risk of Worsening in 2022, Extending 2021 Trend

June 2022
Kayrros
Kayrros
This report indicates that U.S. methane emissions appear to be at risk of significantly increasing in 2022.Read More →

Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C

May 2022
Kelly Trout, Greg Muttitt, Dimitri Lafleur, Thijs Van de Graaf, Roman Mendelevitch, Lan Mei, and Malte Meinshausen
Environmental Research Letters
This study conducts the first bottom-up assessment of committed CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-producing infrastructure, defined as existing and under-construction oil and gas fields and coal mines.Read More →

Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management

April 2022
Carly A. Phillips, Brendan M. Rogers, Molly Elder, Sol Cooperdock, Michael Moubarak, James T. Randerson, Peter C. Frumhoff
ScienceAdvances
This study shows that wildfires in boreal North America could, by mid-century, contribute to a cumulative net source of nearly 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.Read More →

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

April 2022
Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, Benjamin Hmiel, Katherine A. Roberts & Steven P. Hamburg
Nature Communications
This study finds that low production oil and gas well sites are a disproportionately large source of US oil and gas well site methane emissions.Read More →

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

April 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions.Read More →

Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey

March 2022
Yuanlei Chen, Evan D. Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Matthew P. Gordon, Erin B. Wetherley, Eric A. Kort, and Adam R. Brandt
Environmental Science and Technology
This study employs a comprehensive aerial survey to estimate the regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin.Read More →

Emissions from fossil fuels produced on US federal lands and waters present opportunities for climate mitigation

March 2022
Nathan Ratledge, Laura Zachary & Chase Huntley
Climatic Change
This study estimates that the extraction, transportation and combustion of fossil fuels from federal lands and waters resulted in emissions equivalent to roughly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year from 2005 to 2019.Read More →

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